corn-caken.
/ˈkɔːnkeɪk/ U.S.
Cake made of Indian corn meal.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 38 It is..an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially homony and corn cakes.
1833 Louisville Daily Herald 18 Oct. Hence the corn cake and dodger cake, a species which Mrs. Trollope had the honor of inventing, for it was never heard of in Cincinnati before.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 39 Corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention.
1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. 25 Eating their frugal meal of corn cake.
1864 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston xxvi. 337 The old Melinda alone remained in the Kitchen, to prepare her incomparable corn-cake.
1903 N.Y. Sun 1 Nov. Corn cakes as a substitute for bread are popular in the South.
1936 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xxv. 278 Miss Archer was twice as long as usual in making coffee, heating corn cake.
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